Martin wrote: > Big fat pipe plus 802.11b wireless LAN in the house? > > Otherwise known as a Linksys wireless router... > > Tellin' ya - if I had the cash, I'd get the switched one, > and offer free local wireless access to the net... like > this lot: > http://www.consume.net > > Of course, it's technically illegal in the UK. Nice > commentary from this week's http://www.ntk.net Free wireless networks using 802.11b are great. I've had airport for about a year and it rocks hard. Lots of folks are working on providing free net access to anyone with an 802.11b card - just hook up your dsl/cable and wire the neighborhood. I have a dump o links (I think mostly on point) on this -- and am working with a local San Diego group trying to see what we can do. Check it out: http://bookworm.sdsu.edu/sd_clubs.html http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/2001q3/000294.html http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=89393 http://nocat.net/ http://nocat.net/ezwrp.html http://sandiego.citysearch.com/profile?id=111251 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/12/1242213 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/15/0150255&mode=thread http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/23/1837218&mode=thread http://www.arrl.org/catalog/?category=Antennas%2FTransmission+Lines http://www.bawug.org/ http://www.freenetworks.org/ http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/08/24/010824hnfreewireless.xml http://www.kernel-panic.org/ http://www.live.com/wireless/unix-base-station.html http://www.lns.com/papers/FCCPart15_and_the_ISM_2.4G_Band.index http://www.milehighwireless.net/wiki-moinmoin/moin.cgi http://www.nycwireless.net/ http://www.nycwireless.net/articles/enclosure/index.html http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/01/shirky_freeloading.html http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/08/02/openservices.html http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010712.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010823.html http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/AcceptableUse http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/CategoryLegal http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/CheapAssSetup http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/PrivacyPolicy http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/23/pirate/index.html http://www.sdbug.org/ http://www.sdlug.org/ http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0129/tech-fleishman.shtml http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/SecurityIssues.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21177.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/18285.html http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,46187,00.html - Joe <http://artlung.com/>